# Manifold, free: People search API

> People matching title, seniority and company filters. No email.

Manifold's Free plan for the people search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields. Manifold's docs list 3: Experience, Headline, Location.
We haven't run Manifold through [our people search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 724 plans for people search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.75 or less per 1,000 people. [See the best free people search API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
[Coresignal's $49 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/coresignal/49-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 people. Coresignal's $49 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many people as Coresignal's rate limit allows. [Seltz's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/seltz/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-search-base/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 people a month: $0.03.
[PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack (/api/v1/search)](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/peoplesearch-im/5-pack-starter-post-api-v1-search/llms.txt) covers any number of people. PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack costs less up front than Coresignal's $49 monthly plan.
[GetProspect](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/getprospect/49-monthly-starter-post-v2-people-search-people-search/llms.txt), [QuickEnrich](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/quickenrich/399-monthly-gtm-unlimited-get-api-employees-dataset-search/llms.txt) and [AnyAPI](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/anyapi/top-up-from-10-manual-top-up-post-v1-run-people-search-quickenrich/llms.txt) are the best people search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/manifold/free
- [People lookup API: best people search providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.manifoldmcp.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://mcp.manifoldmcp.com/mcp`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.manifoldmcp.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/tools/leads?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing#leads_search_people
- Sold by: Manifold (https://www.manifoldmcp.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 23%
- Experience: ✓ current job
- Headline: ✓
- Location: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 people: $0.00
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Repeat free: 7 days
- Most per search: 1,000
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 111 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: People matching title, seniority and company filters. No email.

## Data

- Freshness: 7 days
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: [7.3] You may use the results the Service returns for your internal business purposes, including in reports and materials you produce for your own clients, subject to Section 5. [...] [5.1] You must use the Service lawfully, and only in ways that a reasonable person would consider fair to us, to our data providers and to the people whose data the Service returns. In particular, you must not: (a) use the Service to send unsolicited messages, or to build or enrich lists of people for unsolicited marketing, in breach of the UK GDPR, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, the CAN-SPAM Act, or any other law that applies to you or to the people you contact, (b) resell, sublicense, redistribute or publicly release the data the Service returns as a dataset or database, or use the Service to build a product whose purpose is to make that data available to others, (c) use the data to discriminate unlawfully, to stalk, harass or intimidate anyone, or for any purpose that is harmful, deceptive or unlawful, (d) use the Service to determine a person's eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing or any similar benefit, or for any purpose regulated by consumer reporting or credit reference laws, (g) reverse engineer, decompile or copy the Service, or use it to build a competing service, (i) use the Service in breach of the terms of a platform, website or data provider, where those terms apply to you.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 250 credits a month
- Enough for: about 20 pages a month
- Expires: at the monthly reset, not rolled over

## Rate limit

- Per second: 2
- Concurrent: 5

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: jsonrpc "2.0", id, method "tools/call", params.name "leads_search_people", one of params.arguments.titles, params.arguments.seniority, params.arguments.company_domains, params.arguments.industries, params.arguments.locations or params.arguments.keywords. Optional: params.arguments.limit, params.arguments.cursor
- Method: POST
- Path: /mcp

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone using it for business, aged 18 or over, no card needed

## The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

first name, last name, headline, title, title start date, company, company domain, company ID, company LinkedIn URL, company employee count, company industry, location, LinkedIn URL, total results

## Manifold's plans (7)

- [Manifold, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/manifold/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, 7 days
- [Manifold, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/manifold/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, 7 days
- [Manifold, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/manifold/29-monthly/llms.txt): $2.32 per 1,000, 23% complete, 7 days
- [Manifold, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/manifold/49-monthly/llms.txt): $1.96 per 1,000, 23% complete, 7 days
- [Manifold, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/manifold/79-monthly/llms.txt): $1.896 per 1,000, 23% complete, 7 days
- [Manifold, $249 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/manifold/249-monthly/llms.txt): $1.494 per 1,000, 23% complete, 7 days
- [Manifold, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/manifold/contact-us/llms.txt): 23% complete, 7 days

## Manifold's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /mcp`: [Manifold, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/manifold/free/llms.txt)

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- [Manifold: LinkedIn post details API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/manifold/free/llms.txt)
- [Manifold: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/manifold/free/llms.txt)
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- [Manifold: local business search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/manifold/free/llms.txt)
- [Manifold: people search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/manifold/free/llms.txt)
- [Manifold: people enrichment API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/manifold/free/llms.txt)
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## Manifold: people search API alternatives

- [GlobalEntity API, €390 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/globalentity-api/390-monthly/llms.txt): $0.088 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 day
- [AnyAPI, top-up from $10, Manual top-up, POST /v1/run/people_search.lusha](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/anyapi/top-up-from-10-manual-top-up-post-v1-run-people-search-lusha/llms.txt): $0.84 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 week
- [Caller Kit, $6,999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/caller-kit/6999-monthly/llms.txt): $1.40 per 1,000, 8% complete, 1 day
- [Pubrio, $2,388 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/pubrio/2388-yearly/llms.txt): $1.592 per 1,000, 31% complete, 1 day

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.

- https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/authentication.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/credits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/limits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/plans.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/tools/leads.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.manifoldmcp.com/mcp/linkedin.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.manifoldmcp.com/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.manifoldmcp.com/terms.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing